WorldNetDaily reported yesterday on the discovery of a State Department document released earlier this year (Here it is, converted to an HTML doc by yours truly for easy reference). State acknowledges, apparently for the first time, something that Scott at Powerline (here and here) demonstrated definitively more than three years ago from other available evidence.

The admission is that State has known for decades that the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the head of Fatah, plotted and supervised the 1973 murders of three diplomats: two from the United States (Cleo Noel and George Curtis), and one from Belgium (Guy Eid) who was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time, in Khartoum, The Sudan.

The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasir Arafat ….. Fatah representatives based in Khartoum partcipated in the attack, using a Fatah vehicle to transport the terrorists to the Saudi Arabian Embassy.

….. The terrorists extended their deadlines three times, but when they became convinced that ther demands would not be met and after they reportedly had received orders from Fatah headquarters in Beirut, they killed the two United States officials and the Belgian Charge.

The document was declassified and apparently went unnoticed until very recently, when James J. Welsh, who was at the time the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst, found it in what WND called “a routine Internet search.”

UPDATE 2: Doug Ross has created a Friends of Terror scrapbook, though I believe there is some bipartisan blame to spread around, combined with the “we do what we want” insularity of the State Department.

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The State Department just declassified documents relating to the murders of U.S. diplomats in the Sudan in 1973. As many have suspected, the U.S. was aware that Yasir Arafat directly orchestrated the killings……

[...] Bizzyblog reports that the U.S. State Department declassified a document earlier this year. In it there is, as T. Blumer calls it, “an admission”. The admission is that State has known for decades that the late Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the head of Fatah, plotted and supervised the 1973 murders of three diplomats: two from the United States (Cleo Noel and George Curtis), and one from Belgium (Guy Eid) who was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time, in Khartoum, The Sudan. [...]

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